February 2009 - Posts
I know this isn't WSUS specific but since so many of you probably use Configuration Manager as well I thought I'd post this in case you're interesting in participating in our study. Looks like they might even give you some swag (aka a "gratuity
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The folks over on the MSRC blog just posted a note saying that Microsoft Security Advisory (968272) has now been published. They state that: This advisory contains information regarding public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel that
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Just an FYI that we had a couple Windows Update/Microsoft Update related Knowledge Base articles publish last week. I have the links and titles below: KB968002 - Error message when you use Windows Update or Microsoft Update Web sites to install updates:
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This guide is written to assist specifically in troubleshooting WSUS when clients are not reporting in. We will examine common troubleshooting considerations that needs to be looked at on the WSUS server only , not on the WSUS client. GPO considerations:
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Looks like the good folks over on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog now have streaming video of the security bulletin webcasts so if you missed this and want to check it out now you can. They have the videos broken out into two parts,
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We've seen a couple instances of an issue here lately that I wanted to mention just in case anyone else happens to run across it. The symptoms can vary but include the following: The WSUS console will not open and may generate the error "MMC could not
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The good folks over on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog posted February's Q&A session and it looks like they managed to answer 37 total questions in the time allotted. If you couldn't make the actual session but had a question you
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Looks like the MSRC folks have a couple new updates regarding the Conficker worm. The first is about some updates to the dedicated Conficker site: ======== I wanted to follow up our recent Conficker post from last Friday where we posted new pages
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I just saw that the folks over on the MSRC blog just posted the info for the February security bulleting release. I stole the details below from them but you can read their entire post here . ======== Today we’re releasing four new security
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Just an FYI that the MSRC blog posted two new pages that provide information you can use to protect against and remove Conficker. These pages consolidate information that we have related to the Conficker incident and provide links to the other, more detailed
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Looks like the MSRC blog just announced advance notification for the February security bulletin release that's scheduled to happen on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 around 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. They also mention that the monthly security bulletin
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I was talking to my buddy Clifton Hughes today and he mentioned an interesting issue that we've seen a couple times concerning an error you get when trying to publishing updates to WSUS via System Center Update Publisher. In this particular case,
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I was talking with my good friend Joao Madureira about some of the recent issues he's been seeing on WSUS and he pointed me to an interesting one where you get an 0x80072AFC error after approving updates. We didn't see a lot of documentation on
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